I think, I realized Microsoft’s problem.
They want to have a hand in everything, and it seems to have been working, maybe it’s their way of surviving and staying on top. But it seems to have grabbed them in the wrong direction. I am reading some exam questions to pass the exam for windows 7 to get certified. Specifically, the deployment chapter. And do not get me wrong, but for the wizard company that invented the wizard, this process is more complex than building a house piece by piece. You need seventeen million tools to be ran in a succession of garbage sequence in order to get a certain type of a deployment image. All these tools have 17 names and they all have to be ran for specific reasons at specific times. I really don’t understand why isn’t there one single tool with wizards, that simply displays:
We offer these “flavors” of images to be created.
1. Do you want a DVD that you pop in the drive and after a few answers (custom partition) you get the unattended file – click here.
2. You want the completely untouchable (unattended) Image. pop it in and go – click here.
3. Then you want a spanned image on more CDs click here. !Bam!
4.You want a network image deploy-able with WDS? _ make sure your WDS server its working and you are connected to the network and then click here.! Bam!
And then the program runs all things in the required succession, in order to get what we want. Then we don’t have to go through the grueling process of running 7 different tools in some weird idiotic order. At the end of the wizard we get the image. !BIG Bam!
I strongly believe that’s what Microsoft should be focusing on. Servicing their products to the best possible way, because if there are bad programs out there, Microsoft’s are the worst. You would expect them to make the full use of all the knowledge they have of their own system, but it seems that their products are always unfinished, put together by some unknown shop in Romania. Take for example ORCA, a Microsoft product. Is the worst documented thing I ever found, and is the worst program I ever tried to understand. Now we can look at an InstEdit. A bit better, it even adds itself the right click menu, pretty nifty.
The Task Manager- a lot of potential there but again the most important feature, they leave apart. You can actually put on pause a single process if you use PrcessExplorer from Sysinternals, (kudos to Mark Russinovich) and it also tells you where the hell the running process came from, so if you want to delete the damn thing, you can. Well, that is the most important feature I use to put a good damn spyware in check, so I can run my antivirus as free as possible, on the infected machine.
I don’t understand how they leave this important stuff out and for third parties to discover and/ or implement. So instead of focusing on getting into technology like virtual machines and compete with VMware and who knows what else, they should focus their resources on really supporting extremely well their products, and then you would really want to get your hands on a PC. The commercials would not even be necessary. Until then we will stick with Apple since they have begun to show some stability. They too seem to be getting hasty and established, but my suggestion would be to stick conservatively with their main products and test the butter out of them before they release them.
So I’ve concluded it. People are switching slowly to apples and this will drag a demand of server technology to become more necessary, then MS will lose its dominant spot in the computer market. Now if that will happen then the only way for MS to survive is to get back to really supporting their products qualitatively. I just heard of the upgrades from Mac OSX leopard to snow but I never heard “oh my god this OSX Snow is terrible”. Not a single rumor, or single whiz went by me. But with windows, every time they get something right, then they messed it up in the next version. Look at windows Vista, a garbage failure. Look at the obscure windows ME. What, you never heard of it? Well it has the renowned reputation of the worst windows ever, and I made my point too. On top of all this nonsense you have seven, six flavors of these windowses:
This is what you have to remember to pass an exam in windows 7:
Ultimate edition
Enterprise edition
Professional edition
Home Premium Edition
Home Basic Edition
Starter Edition
Gizmodo explains it too, and there is also a picture with the bald headed dude from Microsoft trying to be all cool and hip. I don’t know what is the reason to be hyped up, but it shouldn’t be the case, he’s people that came up with most of the shit are really not imaginative. Who in its right mind allowed whoever else to come with 6 “flavors” of the windows 7. I mean how much is the starter edition $20, cause I don’t see the point of building one.
I mean if they went so far as to making six editions, oops my bad, “flavors” then why not just customize the damn thing. I think this will be the next step: You will get window 8 without IE 8, just with Firefox. How cool would that be? Lets post the perfect “flavor” of windows 8. So no internet explorer, and no messenger. I see in win 7 they removed the messenger. Finally a good idea.
Look, Windows 7 it even managed to kill the HP slate. I am glad it died because that thing was hideous. That was blasphemous to the Ipad, and I don’t own one, yet (apple should gift wrap one for me since I am tooting their horn here a bit). Also all my HP LJ 1020 fans might agree with me on the fact that HP is slacking off too.I have also to rip on Adobe too ’cause their garbage reader it has become very annoying. Now it has like two residing garbage programs in start up, and when you log on, it takes you another 10 minutes before you are presented with a desktop, because of all the junk that is added to your start up. Sometimes I feel these companies should pay us for just the headache we are putting up because of them. Would we actually have a case against them for the frustration they cause? Destroyers of peace of mind.
Returning to the customization part I want a customized windows 8 or 7. So far, no Internet explorer (that should deduct like $20) and no messenger ($3), the rest we’ll see what the others want in a customized operating system. All you avid readers should post your wishes. Perhaps MS should open a site “IWish” to spite Apple, which seems to be on a rampage.
Moreover ripping on Microsoft.
I can’t believe that MS decided within two operating systems (Vista and 7)to keep the same stupid setting to view your programs within the start menu frame. I mean, I have a freaking 30″ apple monitor, hooked on a PC. All you MAC fans calm down, is not blasphemy for an apple monitor to be hooked up with a PC. Its Preference. And when I am looking to start a new program up from the start menu, because I use lots of them, I want to be able to spread my programs on my entire screen because at that moment I am not interested in what’s on the rest of my screen, I am looking to launch an application and the rest of the software or images running in the background are useless at this point in time. I just need the most comfortable way to get to my application. I even looked in the task-bar and start menu proprieties, you can’t switch back to the old way of doing things (It should be there, and if I did not see it, then it’s not placed wisely).
Mind you now the size of the screens has increased dramatically, and we can have more icons in that start menu items, and they just decided to be cool, and cage the freaking start menu in a box of approximately12 square inches when my monitor is at least 15 times larger than that. These MS employees “the imaginations’ enemies” decided to get some coolness by doing the mini start menu. The more steps are in between the more annoying a computer becomes, morons.
I don’t want to slide or scroll before I am able to see my goal or target program icon. For example Sony lost me as a customer when they decided to keep the PSP go with only one thumb stick but they gained the appreciation of the current owners because they will not be forced to upgrade. Microsoft in order to gain more market they decided to add a who knows what crazy innovation that is not even well thought out, just to get a few more people attracted to their default product. I just dislike the feature and I think the logic I am using is pretty solid, at least they could’ve added the option to switch it back to the windows XP style start menu. The current look of the start menu is poorly thought out. This crappy thought out start menu gives me the sensation that I am trying to build a ship in a bottle. It would be cool, but there is usually no art in the labor process, the art lies in the results.
Now you be the judges of these statements, customize your ideal windows, and say what you think.
